Herpesvirus-encoded microRNAs (v-miRNAs) play a crucial role in modulating host cellular processes to promote viral persistence, immune evasion, and pathogenesis. These v-miRNAs function by targeting ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots. An imaging study now sheds light on how these ...

Some of these organisms, mostly bacteria or fungi, make the plants sick, while others have no harmful effect on the plants or are even beneficial. Previous studies of endophytic fungi living ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — The discovery of a powerful 'weapon' used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and corn, could ... Feb. 26, 2025 ...

Expert Rev Clin Immunol. 2013;9(3):211-216. Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that commonly begins in early infancy, runs a course of exacerbations and remissions and is ...

But scientists at the University of Hawaii have found a possible solution - marine fungi. Researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) in Mānoa believe it is a “promising and largely untapped ...

I graduated from the University of Manchester in 1996 with a BSc (First Class Honours) in Neuroscience. I then completed an MRes in Neuroscience (University of Manchester, 1997) followed by my PhD ...

Additionally, microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs), which are conserved molecular structures in bacteria, fungi, and viruses, can interact with PRRs, maintaining gut homeostasis. For instance ...